Matteo Garrone enters the race for the Oscars: I am CaptainItaly’s official candidate for the best international film of the 2024 edition, it was chosen for the final five of the night of the stars on March 10th. The nominations, chosen by Academy members from a record 93 countries, were announced today at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles by Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid.
Competing with Garrone are Perfect Days by Wim Wenders nominated from Japan, the Spanish film La Società della Neve by JA Bayona, the German film The Teachers’ Lounge by İlker Çatak and the British film The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazer.
As predicted, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer leads the 2024 Oscar race with 13 nominations, one less than the all-time record. Poor Creatures! by Yorghos Lanthimos came second with eleven chances at the Oscars which includes a fourth nomination for protagonist Emma Stone. In third place with ten nominations Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorsese (in its tenth chance), ahead of Barbie with eight (and two great exclusions, Greta Gerwig in the director category and Margot Robbie among the best actresses). Oppenheimer and Barbie were the phenomenon films of the summer with a total of 2.3 billion dollars in takings at the global box office: a hope for the Academy and for ABC that a good number of spectators will follow the night of the stars, reversing the decline in audience of the latest ceremonies.
Barbenheimer and foreigners nominated for best film
American Fiction, the French Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Triet, Barbie by Greta Gerwig, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Oppenheimer, Past Lives by Celine Song, Poor Creatures! and the British The Zone of Interest are the candidates for the 2024 Oscars for the most prestigious category: the best film. Three films by women directors are on the list, a first for the Academy.
Cooper, Murphy, Giamatti nominated for best actor
Bradley Cooper per Maestro, Colman Domingo per Rustin’, Paul Giamatti per Holdovers, Cillian Murphy per Oppenheimer e Jeffrey Wright per American Fiction are the nominees for the 2024 Best Actor Oscar.
Among the actresses Stone nominated, Robbie out
Annette Bening in Nyad, Lily Gladstone for Killers of the Flower Moon, Sandra Hüller for Anatomy of a Fall, Carey Mulligan in maestro and Emma Stone in Poor Creatures! are the actresses nominated for the 2023 Oscars. Surprisingly, Margot Robbie from Barbie, the film phenomenon of the summer, was left out.
Triet, Nolan, Lanthimos competing for best director
The best directors nominated for the 2024 Oscar are Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall, Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest, Yorgos Lanthimos for Poor Creatures!, Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer and Martin Scorsese for Killers of the Flower Moon. Out went Greta Gerwig from Barbie who had been listed as eligible. This is Scorsese’s tenth nomination.
Blunt, Ferrera, Randolph in the running for Oscars among supporting actors
Oppenheimer’s Emily Blunt, The Color Purple’s Danielle Brooks and The Holdovers’ Da’Vine Joy Randolph have been among the most popular supporting actresses so far in the 2024 movie awards season. The three will compete with Barbie’s America Ferrera and Jodie Foster of Niad for the Oscar for best supporting actress. America Ferrera’s nomination is one of eight Barbie entries that saw Margot Robbie’s performance snubbed.
Robbie and DiCaprio among the snubbed of the nominations
Margot Robbie of Barbie and Leonardo DiCaprio for Killers of the Flower Moon were the big snubs of the 2024 Oscar nominations. Barbie’s director, Greta Gerwig, was also excluded from the race and was considered for best adapted screenplay with her husband Noah Baumbach .
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